QuixoticgeekOur world economy seems to depend on a single 40km wide bit of salt water not being used as a battlefield.
And people thought this is a good system...
David John Matthews@quixoticgeek l still don't understand what all the fuss is about when only 20% of energy comes from the Middle East, it's obviously a stock market scam to drive the price up and Trump is well invested in this scam, trying to make the price go up and down for his family and friends benefit with all his waffling about peace talks ect; Countries need to be smart and ruff it for a while and refuse to pay the higher price and make the oil and gas companies drop the price of their 80% of oil and gas.
@djmatthews 20% of oil. But, it also affects lng, lpg, plastics, helium, fertiliser etc... the world is built on just in time delivery and knife edge logistics. Any interruptions have knock on effects.
@quixoticgeek Luckily l live in the Philippines where drinks still come in bottles and we can do without a lot of the stuff you mentioned. I have 3 lpg tanks and bought 4 sacks of rice, before any price increase, which is enough for 6 months or more. They are now predicting this war will go on to at least June. I say if it's boots on the ground by America, it could be another forever war and that's what Trump wants to keep him in power.
@djmatthews I'm in the Netherlands where drinking water comes out of a tap. Assuming the chemicals needed to treat the water continue to be supplied...
@quixoticgeek ln the Philippines we have water stations everywhere, where tap water is filtered through different filters without chemicals and they come and collect your 25 litre water containers on tricycles and deliver it back to you cleaned and sealed for 30 pesos, about 49 cents US a container.